> "R" == Ruud writes:
R> Thomas Bätzler wrote:
>> my $data = do {
>> local $/ = undef;
>> <$fh>;
>> };
R> Especially for big files, that is better written as:
define big. most files are still text or similar and not big by today's
ram sizes. slurping in a megabyte is nothing to
Thomas Bätzler wrote:
my $data = do {
local $/ = undef;
<$fh>;
};
Especially for big files, that is better written as:
my $data;
{ local $/;
$data = <$fh>;
}
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Doug Cacialli asked:
> Does anyone have any ideas how I can make the second block of code
> work? Or otherwise accomplish the task without opening the .txt file
> twice?
How large are your data files? If your available memory is much larger than
your maximum file size, you might get away with s
On 4/5/10 Mon Apr 5, 2010 2:56 PM, "Doug Cacialli"
scribbled:
> I sincerely appreciate the tips on improving my code; I implement (or
> at least take strong note) of all the suggestions I receive. In the
> code I posted, however, I'm primarily interested in learning if
> there's a way to avoid
I sincerely appreciate the tips on improving my code; I implement (or
at least take strong note) of all the suggestions I receive. In the
code I posted, however, I'm primarily interested in learning if
there's a way to avoid opening the file to determine the character
encoding, and then opening it
Doug Cacialli wrote:
$datapath =~ s/^\s+//;
$datapath =~ s/\s+$//;
Alternative notation:
s/\s+$//, s/^\s+// for $datapath;
I have a "sub trim()" in my Toolbox, so I just call "trim($datapath);".
open (my $filehndl , "<", "$datapath") ||
die ("Can't open .txt file $datapath. Ex
Thanks to much help from the list, and hours of reading up on Unicode,
the Encode module, and many posts to perlmonks, I've come up with a
hideous solution for processing text files with different character
encodings.
Can someone please explain why this first block of code works when
decoding .txt
